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Cream Cheese Festival Schedule

11:00 AM- 6:00 PM

    

11:00 -11:30- David Allyn (acoustic country)

        11:30 - Opening Ceremony

        12:00 - 1:00 - Dudes of Dixieland

        12:00- Unveiling of

  The World’s Largest Cheese Cake

        12:45 -1:30- Mini-Tractor Pull (children’s event)

1:00 - 1:45 - Farmer Green Jeans Contest (children’s event)

        1:30 -5:30- Cream Cheese Bingo

        1:45 - 2:30 - Farmer Green Jeans Relay

1:15 -2:30- David Allyn (acoustic country)

2:00 - Pet Contest

        2:30-3:30- Scarecrow Contest

2:45 -4:30- Prime Time Funk (jazz)

3:00-Winners of the Cream Cheese Recipe

Contest announced

3:30-4:30- Cream Cheese Toss

4:45 - 6:00 - Double Barrel Blues Band

4:45 - 5:45 - Fill Your Friend’s Face Contest

       
The kids love the Discovery Park & petting zoo!

All Contestants must sign up at the information booth the day of the event.

 

 

Cream Cheese Festival Games & Events

Cream Cheese Recipe Contest/Bake-Off - $200 Prize for 1st Place in each Category (3:00pm Winners Announced)
Got a favorite recipe containing cream cheese?  For the third year in a row, a Cream Cheese recipe contest will be one of the featured events at the Cream Cheese Festival.  If you would like to sign up for the contest (or know someone who would), sign ups will be held from noon-2pm on Saturday, September 8th at the Kraft plant at the south entrance of the facility.  Be sure to have a copy of the recipe with you when you sign up.  Kraft will provide the cream cheese.  Winners will be awarded on the day of the Cream Cheese Festival in three categories; dessert, non-dessert and spread/dips, based on appearance, originality and taste.

Mini Tractor Pull - $75, $50, $25 Awarded to the Top Three Winners (12:30pm–1:30pm)
(Age Categories: 3-4, 5-6 and 7-8)  Each child will be riding a pedal tractor with a wagon on the back holding weighted ‘bags of feed’.  The child for each age group to complete the task of pedaling the feed from the beginning of the line to the end, loading it into a wheelbarrow and delivering it back to the beginning of the race in the fastest amount of time will win.

  Pet Contest (2:00pm)
Owner/Pet-Best Look Alike Contest – 1st Prize $150
Best Dog Tricks – 1st Prize $100 Countryside Veterinary Clinic gift certificate
 - 2nd Prize $75 Countryside Veterinary Clinic gift certificate
Costume Contest (Open to all animals)  - 1st Prize $100 Countryside Veterinary Clinic gift certificate
 - 2nd Prize $75 Countryside Veterinary Clinic gift certificate
Most Unsightly Dog – Bring in your most unsightly dog and win a free makeover groom at Countryside Veterinary Clinic and $50 Countryside Veterinary Clinic gift certificate

Cream Cheese Bingo - ½ of the Money Taken in for Each Round Will be the Prize Awarded (1:30pm-5:30pm)
(No Age Limit)  Take part in our unique Bingo game.  You can take part in tossing a ball of cream cheese to the BINGO board to determine what number is to be called.  Rather than drawing balls, we are throwing them.  Nothing like this has ever happened in this neck of the woods or anywhere else as far as we know of!

Farmer Green Jeans - $75, $50, $25 Awarded to the Top Three Winners (Kids 1pm-1:45pm)
(Age Categories: 7-8, 9-10 and 11-12)  Each contestant will be required to complete a dressing task at each interval before moving on to the next stop.  These tasks will be:
     1)  Put on the plaid shirt provided (button three buttons) and place a straw hat on your head.
     2)  Put on green pants and either zip or button them.
     3)  Put on rubber boots.
     4)  Run to the last stop and milk the cow dry.
The “dressed farmer” to complete this task in the fastest amount of time wins the contest! 

  

 $250, $100 and $50 Awarded to the Top Three Teams (Adult 1:45pm-2:30pm)

(Ages 13+)  Team of 4 people - Coordinated in the dark?  One person will be the one getting dressed like a farmer.  His/her team mates will be blindfolded and awaiting your arrival at the next three pit-stops.  The person getting dressed will:
     1) Put on the farmer’s hat.
     2)   Race to your first team member and stand while they assemble your shirt and button three buttons.
     3)    Race to your next team member and put on your pants with your team member buttoning and zipping them.
     4) Race to your third team member.  They will help you put on your boots and assemble your suspenders for you. 
     5)  Stack four bales of hay on top of each other.
     6) Ding the bell at the end of the course.

Scarecrow Contest - $250, $100, $50 Awarded to the Top Three Winners (2:30pm-3:30pm)
(No Age or Number in Group Limit) A “T”, hay or straw and electricity will be provided.  If you choose to participate, you will have 45 minutes to build your very own scarecrow.  NOTHING THAT YOU BRING AND USE CAN BE PRE-ASSEMBLED.  Miscellaneous items such as clothing, bags, bailer twine, duct tape, hammer, nails, screws, screw-gun, hot glue and hot glue gun will be available for use. 
The scarecrows are judged at the end to determine the winner and then used to decorate the town with throughout the months of Sept. and Oct. as weather permits.

  Cream Cheese Toss - $250, $100, $50 Awarded to the Top Three Teams (3:30pm-4:30pm)
(no age limit; team of two) One team member will be the thrower and one team member will be the catcher.  You are given 3 minutes to complete this task. 
Thrower:  If a ball of cream cheese larger than your hand is used, your team will be disqualified!  There will be three lines to throw from.  The closest line receiving the fewest points and the furthest receiving the most points.  If your partner catches the ball that you threw, you receive the points awarded for the line that you threw from. 
Catcher:  Cover yourself with the bag provided- you’ll need it!  There will be a bucket taped around your waist.  You may not use your hands to catch any of the cream cheese with or direct the bucket with.  You must only use the bucket or your chest to catch with.  If you are able to shake a ball of cream cheese off of your chest into the bucket… it counts!  The team with the most points wins! 

Fill Your Friend’s Face Contest - $250, $100, $50 Awarded to the Top Three Teams (4:45pm-5:45pm)
(team of 2 people; no age limit)  Eater:  Position yourself at the table.  Your teammate will be feeding you cheese cake without being able to see your face (from behind).  The person eating the most cheesecake in a period of 3 minutes wins!
Feeder:  You will be standing behind your teammate.  Your arms will be under their arms and look like their own hands/arms.  You will feed your teammate as much cheese cake as you can in a 3 minute period. 

PARTICIPANTS WILL NEED TO SIGN UP FOR THE EVENT THAT THEY WISH TO PARTICIPATE IN THE DAY OF THE FESTIVAL AT THE CREAM CHEESE FESTIVAL INFORMATION BOOTH.  All participants will need to sign a waiver and those under 18 years of age will need to have a parent signature to be able to participate.

Parental Consent Form

David Allyn
An acoustic country music artist playing covers and original music. David lives in Ava , NY and is a favorite in northern Oneida and Lewis Counties and the Syracuse area. As a one man show, David will have you singing and dancing! Check out his web site at http://www.davidallyn.net/

Dudes of Dixieland
The Dudes are all local Lewis County residents with a desire to keep on jamming. Most of the members are active in the Lowville Village Band and they have formed the Dudes for some additional fun. The Dudes of Dixieland play classic Dixieland Jazz with a six to eight piece group of brass instruments, drums and piano.

The Dudes play selected engagements around the north country. Come see them lead the Mardi Gras parade for the Cream Cheese Festival and light up the streets of Lowville with some authentic Dixieland sounds!

Prime Time Funk
Prime Time Funk (PTF) is a ten-piece jazz and funk band based in Rochester , NY . They originated in 1996 when James Richmond and Ralph Ortiz began to assemble an all-star line-up of local instrumentalists. Their ten pieces now include saxophones, trumpets, guitars, keyboards, drum and vocals. PTF is the best in northern NY performing in front of a live audience. Their combination of rock, R & B and jazz creates a sound that is at once powerful, funky and danceable. Prime Time Funk encourages audience participation, working up a sweat to get the crowd involved. At a typical gig, the place is rocking, the band is grooving, and everyone is smiling.

Prime Time Funk has played at festivals clubs, corporate outings and more throughout NYS and the Northeast. They will be releasing their second album of original music in 2007 and also cover songs by artists such as BB King, Al Green, Louis Armstrong, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations and many more. Check them out at www.primetimefunk.com and come to see the most exciting band to hit the streets of Lowville in years.

Double Barrel Blues Band
The band covers central New York with straight ahead blues. They specialize in texas-chicago-syracuse blues, and rock and roll playing covers and some original material. Band members average twenty-five years of blues experience. Mark Cloutier is from Syracuse and plays lead guitar. John Hart provides vocals and a mean slide guitar. Garnet Grimm is from Carthage playing drums and Bill Satterly from Boonville plays bass.

This awesome blues band with great Northern NY connections plays regularly in Watertown , Alex Bay and Syracuse .  This will be their second appearance at the cream Cheese Festival.  Check out their band info and listen to their tunes at.
http://syracuselivemusic.com/bands.php?bandid=1880

Voices of the River
Voices of the River is a sixty member all male chorus from northern NY. All of the participants hail from the region including the 1000 Islands, Boonville, Baldwinsville, Croghan and everywhere in between. The group has been singing one to two concerts per year for eleven years. The chorus offers an eclectic program of music under the tender guidance of Mel Chalker and Rod Ventura. If you have not seen them before, wrap up Cream Cheese Festival day with a 7 PM performance in the Lowville Academy auditorium.